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Books reviewed in this issueVan Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History. By Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane (Sydney: NewSouth, 2015), pp.x + 453. AU$39.99 (pb).Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. By Libby Connors (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2015), pp.xii + 268, AU$32.99 (pb).Anglican Clergy in Australia 1788–1850: Building a British World. By Michael Gladwin (London: Boydell and Brewer and Royal Historical Society, 2015), pp.xiv + 268. One map. £50.00 (cloth).Nature's Gifts: The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land and Other Natural Resources. By John Pullen (Sydney: Federation Press, 2014), pp.240. AU$34.95 (pb).Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales. By Tanya Evans (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015), pp. ix + 304. AU$39.99 (pb).Albert Hall: the Heart of Canberra. By Lenore Coltheart (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2014), pp.x + 318. Colour and b/w photographic illustrations throughout. AUS$49.99 (pb).Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children. Edited by Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014), pp.xiv + 224. AU$34.95 (pb).Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s. By Stuart Macintyre (Sydney: NewSouth, 2015), pp.xi + 596. AU$34.99 (pb).David Syme: Man of the Age. By Elizabeth Morrison (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing and the State Library of Victoria, 2014), pp.433. AU$39.95 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Inside the Hawke‐Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary. By Gareth Evans (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014), pp.xvii + 414. AU$49.95 (cloth)/$19.99 (ebook).Paul Keating: The Biography. By David Day (Sydney: Fourth Estate, 2015), pp.xviii + 557. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, AU$49.95 (cloth).Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014), pp.329. €56.00 (pb).The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd. By Quentin Beresford (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015), pp.442. AU$32.99 (pb).Dangerous Allies: The United States and Australia. By Malcolm Fraser with Cain Roberts (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014). Pp.viii + 360. ISBN 978‐0‐6740‐67141. AU$45.00 (cloth).An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815–1914. By Maartje Abbenhuis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp.x + 289. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐03760‐1. AU$135.00 (cloth).Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923. By R.F. Foster (London: Allen Lane, 2014), pp.xxiii + 463. Thirty‐three plates. Ten text illustrations. £20.00 (cloth).Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband. By Tim Bale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.320. £7.69 (pb).Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes. By Maja Suderland (Cambridge: Polity, 2013), [Ein Extremfall des Sozialen (Frankfurt/Main; Campus Verlag GmbH, 2009)]; translated by Jessica Spengler, pp.xiii + 336. £17.99 (pb).The Passage to Europe: How a Continent became a Union. By Luuk Van Middelaar, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters (New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2013), pp.xvii + 372 £25 (cloth), £12.99 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Writing the History of Memory. Edited by Stefan Berger and Bill Niven (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. ix + 247. AU$39.99 (pb).Artists under Hitler. Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany. By Jonathan Petropoulos (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp.xiii + 407, b/w illustrations and colour plates. US $40.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.A Stranger in My Own Country. The 1944 Prison Diary. By Hans Fallada, ed. Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange, trans. Allan Blunden (Cambridge: Polity, 2015), pp.viii + 274. £20.00 (cloth).Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York. By Phillip Deery (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), pp.xi + 252, US$34.95 (cloth).Dumont d'Urville: Explorer and Polymath. By Edward Duyker (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2014), pp.671. NZ$70.00 (cloth).Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia‐Pacific: The Australian and Malaysian Experience. Edited by Claudia Tazreiter and Siew Yean Tham (Houndsmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), £65.00 (cloth).Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth. By Alison Bashford (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp.480. 16 Illustrations, AU$97.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Politics Against Pessimism: Social Democratic Possibilities Since Ernst Wigforss. By Winton Higgins and Geoff Dow (Bern: Peter Lang, 2013), pp.434. US$73.00 (pb).The Vulnerable in International Society. By Ian Clark (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp.1 + 190. AU$44.00 (pb).The Yezidis. The History of a Community, Culture and Religion. By Birgϋl Açikyıldız (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014) pp. xvii + 283, AU$41.95 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories. Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), pp.280. £80.00 (cloth).We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species. By R.S. Deese (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015), pp.vii + 230, AU$76.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.